Dvorkovich is accused of a dubious scheme with the certification of cars in the interests of the oligarch Nesis
Moscow, August 19 (Navigator, Anna Klimenko) – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich was accused of creating a dubious scheme with new rules for the certification of railway cars.
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As Ekho Moskvy reported, the day before, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree according to which cars will be certified even after routine repairs, which actually equates to their modernization.
“Think about it. In Russia there are a million freight cars, 200 car repair plants, and one and a half thousand types of cars. For each type of this car, each car repair plant will have to obtain certification. It was Mr. Dvorkovich who, as far as I understand, came up with this wonderful resolution. Moreover, Dvorkovich’s idea that certification is needed after every repair is actually rich. Well, I renovated the house and painted the ceilings. We urgently need to invite a commission from the BTI - and suddenly the load-bearing structures break off from repainting the ceilings. Or there’s a person, can you imagine, who repaired the faucet in the kitchen or put a patch on the sleeve, scary to say, put in a tile to replace the one that had fallen out. Well, following the logic of Mr. Dvorkovich, in all these cases, certification, license, permits, admission and documents are certainly needed. What if the person in the hallway drove a nail in the wrong place? Well, can we be sure without a commission’s conclusion that he won’t tragically get hurt on it at night when he gets up drunk to go to the toilet? In general, only accounting, control and documentation can prevent such a terrible development of events,” notes author Yulia Latynina.
“There are a million freight cars in Russia. A freight car is not an airplane, a space rocket, or a submarine. The design of a freight car has not changed in general terms since the XNUMXth century. In general, there is little that can break in a freight car. And repair is just that: repair. During repairs, nothing significant happens, unlike modernization,” the journalists are indignant.
“A million freight cars, one and a half thousand types of cars, 200 car repair plants. That is, roughly speaking, it is impossible for these 200 factories to obtain these one and a half thousand certificates. So, the question arises, what was Mr. Dvorkovich guided by when advocating for this wonderful document?
The answer is very simple. There is such an oligarch Alexander Nesis, president of the ICT group, a very successful, high-class Russian industrialist. Even before the recession, Mr. Nesis built the Tikhvin Carriage Plant in Tikhvin, which opened in 2012 in the presence of Vladimir Putin. This plant has just recently produced its 10th carriage. This is a very good plant, it cost 30 billion rubles. He makes new cars using foreign technology.
This means that this plant has a small problem, that the cost of its cars, since they are new, since they are based on foreign technology... Well, I won’t talk about how new this technology is, because, in general, as I already said , the design of freight cars - there has been nothing particularly innovative about it since the XNUMXth century. But the small problem is that there is only one drawback to this whole story - the cars turned out to be too expensive.
And in Russia there is a recession, a decline in rail transportation, and an excess fleet of freight cars. In Russia, prices for the railcar component in freight transportation have fallen over the past few years from 1200 rubles to 400. And when Mr. Nesis built the plant on credit and the money was, naturally, from state banks (VEB and there is another state bank, joint with Kazakhstan, Russian), it was a rise in production and 1200 rubles. And now it’s 400 rubles and an excess of cars that have nowhere to go. And in 2013, compared to 2012, rail transportation in tons fell by 2,9%. And in the first half of this year by another 1,5%. Transportation is falling, mind you, at a faster pace than GDP. And, accordingly, there are somehow few people willing to buy Mr. Nesis’s new expensive cars.
First, the Federal Tariff Service sets a 15% discount for Mr. Nesis’s cars as being highly innovative. Like, whoever buys a carriage from Nesis will receive a 15% discount on tariffs. Anyway, there were no gigantic queues of buyers anyway. Then Nesis created his own leasing company, which buys these cars from him.
And why am I talking about this? Because Nesis is the president of the ICT group. Who is our vice president of the ICT group? Zumrud Rustamova, wife of Arkady Dvorkovich. That's the whole story. If you force all carriers to suffer, if you force 200 factories, which employ several thousand people, to obtain licenses for the repair of one and a half thousand varieties of cars, well, so to speak, they will be tortured to swallow the dust, they will start buying Nesis cars,” says the author of Echo of Moscow.
According to radio operators, this decree has already come into force on August 1st.
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